When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

James Broughton

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Anne Lamott

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

Robert B. Laughlin

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Jessica Lange

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

Dee Snider

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Archibald Rutledge

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

George Bernard Shaw

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

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